This can either mean "I learn the Russian language" (usually the connotation is "by memorization"), or "I teach the Russian language," in which case it's grammatically incorrect. If you teach someone something, it's reversed from ENglish to Russian; whom you're teaching goes in the accusative case, what you're teaching him goes in the dative.

Yup. (1) could be a general study (i.e. a linguist could be studying the average length of words in Russian language, and use "izuchaju").
(2) more specifically means that you are learning the language.

Re: got a lil question

Originally Posted by Орчун

Я учу Русский Язык

Я изучаю Русский Язык

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In most of cases, if you are supposed to be just a student learning Russian as a foreign language, there is no difference at all. You can choose either one, although the latter is more grammatically correct.

If you want to imply a specific context, for example, you are a linguist studying some language nuances, only the latter phrase would work.

Re: got a lil question

[quote=Боб Уайтман]

Originally Posted by "Орчун":21jt3odb

Я учу Русский Язык

Я изучаю Русский Язык

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In most of cases, if you are supposed to be just a student learning Russian as a foreign language, there is no difference at all. You can choose either one, although the latter is more grammatically correct.

If you want to imply a specific context, for example, you are a linguist studying some language nuances, only the latter phrase would work.[/quote:21jt3odb]